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202: Commissioner may require agency to supply information
or “Privacy Commissioner can ask agencies for contact details and information about personal data they hold”

You could also call this:

“The Commissioner must follow specific rules when conducting inquiries”

If the Commissioner conducts an inquiry under section 17(1)(i), they must follow the rules set out in sections 86 to 90. These rules explain how the Commissioner should carry out the inquiry. When you read these sections, you should think of the word “investigation” as meaning “inquiry” instead.

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Next up: 204: Powers relating to declaratory judgments

or “Commissioner can seek court's opinion on privacy law interpretation”

Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
General

203Inquiries

  1. Sections 86 to 90 apply in relation to an inquiry conducted by the Commissioner under section 17(1)(i), and for this purpose all references in those sections to an investigation must be read as a reference to an inquiry.